Tenth Presbyterian Church

Tenth Presbyterian Church is a congregation of approximately 1,600 members[citation needed] located in Center City, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States.

Tenth is a part of the Presbyterian Church in America (PCA), a denomination in the Reformed (Calvinist) tradition.

[4] It is located at the southwest corner of 17th & Spruce Streets in Philadelphia's Rittenhouse Square neighborhood, in the southwestern quadrant of Center City.

In 1893, architect Frank Miles Day was hired to perform major alterations to the church's exterior and interior decoration.

The Philadelphia Presbytery (PC-USA) was a conservative bastion during the fundamentalist-modernist controversy of the 1920s and 1930s, and Tenth Presbyterian was no exception.

Tenth membership continued to grow after World War II, and ministry efforts to college students gave the congregation a metropolitan focus.

Tenth Presbyterian Church, interior prior to 1893 remodeling.
Tenth Church before the removal of the spires in 1912
Philip G. Ryken, in front of the pulpit, June 27, 2010
William "Liam" W. Goligher, at Tenth Presbyterian Church, 2011
C. Everett Koop, MD